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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Organization has named Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Serbia as the most promising markets for Ukrainian exporters, according to economist from the FAO Investment Centre Dmytro Prykhodko.”First of all, it is a group of the countries that import food products not included in...

At least 50 militants were killed in a U.S. air strike on an al Qaeda training camp in the mountains of southern Yemen, medics and a local official said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.The attack took place as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) recruits queued for dinner at the camp, west of the port city of Mukalla on Yemen`s south...

The total sum of Ukrainian households` spending last year amounted to UAH 1.325 trillion with food and non-alcoholic beverages accounting for 38.4% of the households` budget, or more than UAH 509 billion, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.Payments for housing and utility services accounted for 14.8% of the total expenditures of...

The Kremlin does not confirm a statement by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has allegedly promised to release or exchange Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko after the trial ends in Russia, according to Russian news agency TASS. ”I do not know about such agreements,” TASS quoted Kremlin spokesman...

U.S. presidential front-runners, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, have continued their winning streaks, taking Arizona, the BBC reported.The issue of immigration loomed large in the south-western state, the biggest prize in the latest round of contests, according to the BBC.Polls showed that Mr. Trump`s anti-immigration...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden have strongly condemned the verdict against Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadia Savchenko and urged Moscow to fulfill the Minsk agreements.”Ukraine will never recognize this show trial,” Poroshenko said in a phone conversation with Biden, the president`s press service...

Ukraine`s First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Yulia Kovaliv projects that budget payments to be made by state-owned companies by July 1, 2016, for their operations in 2015 will total UAH 11.1 billion, which will be 56% up from 2014.”Budget transfers from state-owned companies based on their performance in 2015 are projected at...

The Russian Federation has shown a blatant disregard for the principles of justice and contravened its commitments under the Minsk agreements, having sentenced Savchenko to 22 years in prison. ”The conviction and sentencing of Nadia Savchenko to 22 years` imprisonment show a blatant disregard for the principles of justice and contravene Russia`s...

The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 44 times in the past 24 hours, violating the Minsk agreements and using banned weapons, according to press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). The enemy fired grenade launchers of various systems and small arms 38 times on the Ukrainian fortified...